Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Honky Tonk is a drug-culture parody of older comic book forms and advertising techniques. Sandwiched between the two principal stories, a full-page ad, layed-out with True Grit's promos, boasts. "Get both spending money and a real high!" The serious kid with shoulder satchels full of newspapers has been replaced by a freak holding a lid. The caption reads, "Percy Sibbin makes $500 a week and is always stoned!" Unfortunately, much of the remainder of the comic is more self-indulgent mockery than readable satire. In the lead story, "An Okie from Waskogie," Sodmind Redneck is drinking...
...back to Cambridge this year expecting too much in the way of street liberation. Sure enough, the Harvard Trust had bricked up its front windows, the Bick was gone forever, and the male chauvinists were out in droves. I'd been back no less than three days, when a kid walked up to me in the street and said, "Hey, are you married?" "No," I said, icily. "Well then," he demanded, giving me the old Don Ameche wink, and smirk, "howdja like to take me home with...
When Jerry Lee Lewis sang Great Balls of Fire, beat his piano and took off his shirt, he struck at the jugular of country music's conservatism. The kid musicians weren't singing about hard-luck or the hell of prison life any more. They just wanted to make people feel good and that usually had something to do with...
...took one kid out for ice cream," recalls one professor, "and when he ate it he clutched the side of his mouth in pain-his teeth were full of cavities." Violent headaches were common, until teachers realized that many students were too poor to buy needed eyeglasses. Even with glasses, they took a dim view of standard English courses rich in Henry James and Christina Rossetti, whose polished phrases merely provoked bored back-row obscenities...
Well, what went wrong was that he was the smartest kid in his high school class, won a scholarship to B.U., and turned on to Marx, dope, and sex in his freshman, sophomore and junior years, in that order. In his senior year, he edited the B.U. News and transformed it into a real radical rag, printing the kind of stories LNS would later specialize in. His account of those years is refreshingly ironic- a welcome relief from those numerous tomes gravely relating the intricate workings of local politicos-but it unfortunately omits some events we would like to hear...